Corpus analysis of 54 naturally occurring introductions of Physics papers led to a detailed schematic structure comprising eight components that are realized linguistically through 30 rhetorical strategies. A strategy is made up of two or three rhetorical messages out of a set of 45 messages. Such a detailed analysis was required for employing the case-based reasoning approach in developing wri...

contrastive rhetorical analysis as a way of understanding different ways through which writers from various cultural backgrounds shape their discourse was officially initiated by the works of kaplan (1966). this study tries to use the methodology to investigate the news reports in two american and iranian widely published newspapers. using the analytical methodologies of contrastive rhetoric an...

Rhetorical structure theory (RST) provides a model of textual function based upon rhetoric. Initially developed as a model of text coherence, RST has been used extensively in text generation research, and has more recently been proposed as a basis for multimedia presentation generation. This paper investigates the use of RST for generating video presentations having a rhetorical form, using mod...

This discourse study examines the rhetorical structures of RA introductions in Sinta 1 indexed ELT journals by implementing Swales’ (2004) CARS model as framework for analysis. A corpus consisting 36 was randomly collected from three SINTA journals, namely TEFLIN, SiELE, and IJAL, 2019-2021. The analysis done using top-down findings indicated that all moves, i.e., Move Establishing a territory,...

While numerous studies have scrutinized the rhetorical structures of Research Articles (RAs) through move analysis, it appears that Move Recycling (MR) across RA sections has received little attention. The current study sought to fill this gap by investigating whether recycling Objective (study purposes/questions/hypotheses) in Discussion sections, which was previously used Introduction, is vul...